How To Identify Counterfeit Confederate Money
A sad reality about Confederate money is that 97% of what is out there is fake. The 3% that is authentic usually isn’t very valuable. The information below is a list of serial numbers of known counterfeit confederate money. This list is very easy to use.
Listing of Authentic Confederate Paper Money
If your denomination and year matches the serial number listed, then what you have is not authentic and it has no collector value. There are no exceptions. Some of these notes can be bought today at museums and historical sites for pennies. Others were given away in cereal boxes starting in the 1950s.
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Serial Numbers
$0.50 1863 104199, 104508, 861343
1864 6850, 83999
$1 1862 355, 658, 49092, 50381
1863 1468, 18094
1864 3691, 28490, 32984, 42507, 6171, 76280, 82129, 83383, 85087
$2 1861 2473, 6476, 46893
1862 37232, 48590, 211765
1863 46695, 51572
1864 4505, 18491, 32098, 34098, 37544, 48840, 74585, 93609, 94505, 98840
$5 1861 1953, 2070, 4763, 11225, 16767, 24497, 138590
1862 6250
1863 16165, 81072
1864 1138, 18262, 19640, 23580, 45806, 46147, 47333, 50243, 68771,76280
$10 1861 470, 970, 1484, 5089, 8005, 8007, 19107, 77389, 91497, 94129
1862 2973, 581355
1863 37728, 50883
1864 8470, 9825, 14077, 22462, 31680, 32515, 35342, 39911, 40620, 40679,
45447, 45956, 49987, 55411, 66037, 83185, 96636
$20 1861 11220, 15247, 76007, 131720
1862 39590, 61372
1863 77786
1864 1372, 2625, 10482, 13410, 22224, 23483, 35021, 46410, 56809, 68327, 76627, 80967, 93941
$50 1861 1365, 3866, 18441, 18443, 21614, 23961, 23510, 31351, 49935, 93351
1862 60423, 85765
1863 3987, 4553, 57257, 57557
1864 5670, 5920, 11999, 14949, 24791, 25674, 50935, 59204, 61891, 72104, 77114
$100 1861 85, 457, 1367, 4182, 4332, 323118
1862 108, 4114, 25208, 50371, 52042, 53453, 57939, 65798, 84389, 127208, 148406
1863 933, 2248, 2575, 29063, 29200, 57226
1864 801, 4398, 20396, 33193, 41567, 44248, 47128, 49987 79243, 85117, 92685
$500 1861 85
1864 393, 9229, 14682, 16599, 16760, 18278, 18935, 19834, 21130, 26326, 26949, 33004, 33546, 36776, 67935, 82210
$1,000 1861 46, 82, 88, 176, 178, 197, 297, 321
$10,000 everything is fake
$100,000 everything is fake
$1,000,000 everything is fake